help! steering wheel chipping

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Old Mar 18, 2006 | 11:44 PM
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help! steering wheel chipping

The steering wheel in my 01 s'crew is leater wraped and it is gray, I have noticed that the gray is coming off and black is showing threw. Any fixes?
 
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 12:52 PM
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mine too on the left, last owner must have worn gloves & gripped the wheel hard, its not ripped atleast.
 
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 09:27 PM
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I have had mine since it was new and I only use it for pleasure, no work at all.

Never had anything in the bed. I am meticulus at cleaning and want to fix this if I can.
 
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 10:55 PM
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Well I think you need it re-wrapped cause I sure do. It doesn't show up too much here but look near the shifter where the wheel is looking dark, thats where mines at.

 
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Old Mar 20, 2006 | 06:48 PM
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I am having the same problem again with my 97 Expedition EB. I am on my second steering wheel and looking to get a third. Let me know what you guys come up with or maybe we can get a group purchase if enough of us are interested?
 
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Old Mar 20, 2006 | 07:21 PM
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This may or may not help but last year I was helping someone put a leather wheel on their 2005 F150 and they had scuffed the wheel pretty good. There was white stuff showing and there were five or six little 'tooth marks' where the leather stood away from the white undermarking. He wanted to use one of those leather repair kits, the kind you can get at retail auto parts stores. I took the wheel and applied matching shoe polish and just treated it like you would a leather shoe that is scuffed. Took about thirty minutes of polishing and buffing. If you hold the wheel up to your eye you may detect the damaged spots, or you may not. There are imperfections in the leather anyway.
You can not feel the spots (they did flap and catch when turning the wheel) as you slid you hands around the wheel. His wife never knew he tore up the wheel. I happened to drive his truck last week, repair is still perfect 25,000 miles later.
And since I used good quality shoe polish and seriously hand buffed it in, no polish ever came off on their hands.
This is an old Brit car trick.

Or just keep buying the wheels off e-bay. Usually about 60 bucks plus shipping.

Chris
 
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